{"id":7795,"date":"2019-12-21T04:49:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T04:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7795"},"modified":"2019-12-21T04:49:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T04:49:21","slug":"brexit-mps-back-boris-johnsons-plan-to-leave-eu-on-31-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/brexit-mps-back-boris-johnsons-plan-to-leave-eu-on-31-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit: MPs back Boris Johnson\u2019s plan to leave EU on 31 January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">MPs have backed Prime Minister Boris Johnson&#8217;s plan for the UK to leave the EU on 31 January.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">They voted 358 to 234 &#8211; a majority of 124 &#8211; in favour of the EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill, which now goes on to further scrutiny in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The bill would also ban an extension of the transition period &#8211; during which the UK is out of the EU but follows many of its rules &#8211; past 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The PM said the country was now &#8220;one step closer to getting Brexit done&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told his MPs to vote against the bill, saying there was &#8220;a better and fairer way&#8221; to leave the EU &#8211; but six of them backed the government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Mr Johnson insists a trade deal with the EU can be in place by the end of the transition period, but critics say this timescale is unrealistic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The bill had been expected to pass easily after the Conservatives won an 80-seat majority at last week&#8217;s general election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">MPs also backed the timetable for further debate on the bill over three days when they return after the Christmas recess &#8211; on 7, 8 and 9 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPs have backed Prime Minister Boris Johnson&#8217;s plan for the UK to leave the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}